"Two explosions in thee Malakand region of north-west Pakistan have killed at least four people, officials say. The bombs went off near two mosques in Bazdarra village, close to the tribal areas that border Afghanistan. The BBC's reporter in nearby Mingora says that a dozen people were injured in the blasts." (05/17/13)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22566819"Multiple car bombs have exploded in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital. The blasts Thursday hit the Sadr City and Kamaliya areas, leaving at least 18 other people wounded. The attacks follow a wave of bombings Wednesday that also struck mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods. Those blasts killed at least 33 people." (05/16/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cgv32o7"A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing two troops and four civilian contractors, the international military coalition confirmed. Eight Afghans civilians also died in the explosion and more than 30 were wounded, according to a senior Afghan police official. The International Assistance Force -- Afghanistan (ISAF) did not confirm the nationalities of the slain troops or contractors in its brief written statement, as is customary until families can be notified." (05/16/13)
http://tinyurl.com/aldbb9k"Gunmen in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border have attacked a NATO truck transporting goods for the foreign forces in Afghanistan, killing the driver and wounding another person on the truck, Press TV reports. Local Pakistani officials said the attack was carried out in the Jamrud area of Khyber Agency on Thursday when armed men opened fire on the truck, which was carrying supplies for the US-led forces stationed in Afghanistan." (05/16/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cylm5cm"Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked at least nine liquor stores in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 12 people, police and medical sources said. Police sources said the attack targeted a row of stores selling alcohol in Zayona district of eastern Baghdad, which has a majority Shiite population." (05/15/13)
http://tinyurl.com/amgdfpq"Two bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one police officer, an official said. The explosions struck in the early morning in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. The first bomb wounded a policeman, and the second was remotely detonated minutes later as police swarmed to the blast scene to secure it." (05/15/13)
http://tinyurl.com/a7nfmku"Two people were killed in separate firing incidents on Wednesday. A 40-year-old man, Hafiz Sajjad, son of Nawaz, was gunned by unidentified armed men .... Separately, the 26-year-old Hanif, son of Fareed was killed in firing by unknown assailants at Akbar Road, Sher Shah, within the jurisdiction of Sher Shah police station." (05/15/13)
http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=101044"Iraqi authorities say a car bombing and shooting have killed four people in the country's north and west. Police say in the deadliest attack a suicide car bomber struck an army checkpoint near Ramadi, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others. ... Earlier Monday, drive-by shooters killed Abdul-Elah Hadi, a local council member in the town of Riyadh, said Kirkuk provincial police." (05/14/13)
http://tinyurl.com/d3c6af4"Three Georgian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan yesterday when insurgents detonated a vehicle laden with explosives, according to a senior Western military official and NATO. The deaths take the number of troops killed in Afghanistan from the former Soviet country to 22." (05/14/13)
http://tinyurl.com/c8pou8k"Gunfire attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed five people, including a provincial official in a southern city. ... gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on an outdoor vegetable market in the town of Mishahda, killing three civilians and wounding three others. The town is 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the capital. Also, police said drive-by shooters killed a police officer driving his car in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Shaab. In the southern oil hub of Basra, police said gunmen shot and killed Ali Hussein, a Sunni member of the Basra Provincial Council, as he was leaving a mosque after night prayers." (05/13/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cm99ua3"Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has hit a bus and killed 10 civilians, mostly women and children, in the south of the country. Kandahar province’s police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq said the Monday blast wounded another 12 people in Maroof district, roughly 60 kilometers northeast of Kandahar city." (05/13/13)
http://tinyurl.com/d22nq2r"Six people were killed and 45 injured in a suicide attack in Balochistan province in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported citing local media reports. The attack took place late Sunday night when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into Inspector-General Balochistan Mushtaq Sukhera's home, razing part of his house to the ground." (05/13/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cceyuxq"Five people, including two soldiers, have been killed in attacks in northern Iraq, security officials said Friday, dpa reported. Insurgents attacked an army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, sparking a gunbattle in which one soldier and three gunmen were killed, a security official told broadcaster Alsumariya News. A soldier was killed and two injured in a shelling attack on an army checkpoint in the town of Baiji, around 200 kilometres north of Baghdad." (05/10/13)
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/2148965.html"The semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, which has largely escaped most of the recent revival of sectarian bloodshed, was hit hard Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities. Two suicide bombers and a car explosion left at least four people dead and dozens wounded in and near Kirkuk. One of the attacks conducted by a suicide bomber targeted the main office of the Kurdish party headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani." (05/09/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cj7kmjs"Afghan police were accused of killing eight protesters at a demonstration on Wednesday as the U.S.-led coalition said it had opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct by NATO troops during an encounter with insurgents. ... Villagers in the town of Maiwand said Afghan police opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting raids that Afghan and NATO forces conducted in their village of Loye Karez two days earlier." (05/09/13)
http://tinyurl.com/dxmhlrr"Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a violent run-up to Saturday's nationwide elections. Ali Haider Gilani, the son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, is running for a provincial assembly seat in the district of Multan. He was attending an election event in the town of Multan on Thursday - the last day of campaigning across Pakistan - when the gunmen pulled up, started shooting, grabbed and threw him into a vehicle and drove off, officials and witnesses said." (05/09/13)
http://tinyurl.com/ct8szdj"In Mosul, a sticky bomb planed on a provincial councilor’s car killed her driver. A policeman was gunned down. ... Security forces killed two gunmen. A roadside bomb killed a man and wounded a woman. Gunmen attacked a Tikrit checkpoint, where they killed four policemen and wounded a colonel. In Baghdad, two people were shot and killed at a car repair shop in the Bayaa district. Gunmen in Falluja killed a policeman. Gunmen killed a politician and a policeman traveling with him near Khalis. A Sahwa member was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting at a home near Baquba. A soldier was killed and another was wounded in Amara when gunmen attacked them at a garage. In Adhaim, a body belonging to security member was discovered." (05/07/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cb5oa5s"Officials in northwestern Pakistan say a suicide car bomber has killed two people and wounded at least 23. Authorities say an explosives-laden car struck a police station early Wednesday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, located along the Afghan border where the Taliban and other militants have hideouts." (05/08/13)
http://www.voanews.com/content/2-killed-in-pakistan-blast/1656691.html"In Baghdad, bombs planted at two entrances to the Husseiniya neighborhood exploded, killing six people and wounding 21 others. Grenades killed six people and wounded 13 more at a Sunni mosque in Mansour. Four civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded in a blast at a Doura restaurant. ... In Mosul, a suicide bomber killed two people at a checkpoint. A car bomb killed three people. Gunmen killed an employee of the health department. Bombs killed two more people and wounded four others. Three people were killed and two more were wounded during an I.E.D. blast in Baiji. An I.E.D. in Haditha wounded two policemen. A bomb killed two soldiers and wounded a third person in Tikrit. A man was gunned down in Hawija." (05/06/13)
http://tinyurl.com/c6nrf75"Four Afghan policemen have been killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Ghazni, Press TV reports. The blast occurred on Tuesday when a bomb planted by Taliban militants went off near Ghazni city." (05/07/13)
http://tinyurl.com/ccvcwuu"A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a candidate from a hard-line Islamist party in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in the second attack on the party in as many days, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the Taliban took credit for an attack the day before on the same party, claiming it was targeting a candidate who had supported military operations against the militants in the northwest." (05/07/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cqah5l4"A series of attacks including a blast near an Internet cafe in a Sunni area of Baghdad killed nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday in and around the Iraqi capital. ... the first attack occurred Sunday morning when a bomb went off near Zein al-Abideen mosque in the western suburbs of Baghdad. One passerby was killed .... gunmen stormed the house of a district mayor in Mahmoudiya town, killing the mayor and his son. ... a bomb exploded near an Internet cafe in a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing three .... Minutes later, three people were killed and 14 others wounded when mortar shells landed on houses on the western edge of Baghdad." (05/06/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cpyjf8f"Eight soldiers with the US-led military coalition, including seven Americans, were killed Saturday, making it the bloodiest day this year for Western troops fighting here. Two were shot in an insider attack, one died in a small-arms attack, and five Americans were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, according to statements from the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan officials." (05/05/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cwh6eex"Military operations and insurgent attacks in lawless districts of Pakistan left eight members of the security forces and around 30 militants and criminal suspects dead on Sunday, officials said. Two soldiers and 16 militants were killed in clashes in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal region in the northwest, the military said in a statement. ... In the North Waziristan tribal region, another northwestern district bordering Afghanistan, a roadside bomb attack on a convoy killed two soldiers .... two members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were killed in clashes in the Bolan district of the southwestern province of Baluchistan .... In the province’s Sibbi district, a convoy of an independent candidate running in Pakistan’s May 11 parliamentary elections was attacked by two gunmen who killed two of his police guards, said police official Owais Ahmad." (05/05/13)
http://tinyurl.com/cbwmlsy"Iraqi authorities say a bomb explosion at a Sunni mosque just north of Baghdad has killed five worshippers and wounded about 19 others. Police officials say Friday's bombing occurred as worshippers were leaving mid-day prayers at al-Ghofran mosque in a primarily Sunni area of Rashidiya." (05/02/13)
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